I would argue that there's a fundamental misunderstanding of how steam locomotives work and how the dynamometer cars work too. There also seems to...
A lot of sensible thinking here. I will check with my supervisor to see if I can publish the graphs I have produced. If not, I will make everyone...
Gents, researchers are allowed to disagree with one another. That’s why we have research! I am disappointed to note a couple of members would...
I will have to make sure to tell my supervisor, the University of Southampton and the Association of Business Historians that...! ;) I mean,...
I've covered this below. No, it was not. Eric Bannister covers this is in his book. He did the official trace and found 126mph the day after...
MellishR, with respect I am going to refer back to my original statement. It explains why. And again, no, you won’t find each quarter mile...
We could, if we had other rolls where we could see similar speed ranges. But we don’t, so we can’t. There’s a law of diminishing returns I feel...
Let’s clarify this, hopefully for good. So the paper goes through the rollers, driven by the ninth wheel directly affixed to the running rail....
Whoops, wrong pic. I will replace!
You cannot be serious. I sent you a copy of a section of the roll. The pens are spaced apart. Hermod - really?
I hope not, I only want to see good research and understanding being discussed!
Breaking my rule - again - but I cannot let this go unchallenged. Again. It is good to see Mr Andrews’ account in a more readable account....
In that post I did make it quite clear that I have been speaking German since I was young. I am allowed to be rusty in my use of language, but the...
Hermod, du hast keine Ahnung, wozu ich fahig bin. Die meiste zeit meiner teenager - und fruhen zwanzigerjahre habe ich in Wien verbracht. I am...
Sigh. I can’t in all good conscience ignore what’s being said, so to clarify: We actually covered the 05 002 speed run some months ago. I have a...
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